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Erdogan: This is called 'not learning from the past'
The decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to recommend a retrial for former PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan sparked remarks strong remarks by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday at a meeting of regional mayors. |
 Cicek: The Committee of European Council Ministers does not have ultimate authority |
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Newsweek takes back Koran desecration claim
The American magazine Newsweek, has said that a report published on May 9 regarding the desecration of the Koran at US detention centre Guantanamo Bay was false. The report that was published on May 9 claimed that interrogators at the camp had flushed the holy book down the toilet. The claim has sparked widespread violence throughout the Muslim world and resulted in 14 dead and at least 120 injured in Afghanistan in the worse violence to take over the country since the fall of the Taliban. |
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Uzbeki protestors: They shot at us like we were rabbits
The bodies of 600 or so protestors killed by soldiers on Friday afternoon in Uzbekistan's city of Andijan were picked up by trucks and carried to two schools for identification. Sources are saying that the bodies have been buried not only in graveyards, but in parks. While a young Uzbeki survivor of the incident said "they shot at us like we were rabbits," State President Islam Kerimov claims that soldiers had not received orders to fire on the citizens. |
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Kuryenet's success reflects rapid growth of credit card use in Turkey
Along with the rapid increase in credit card use in Turkey, more and more attention is being paid to the safe delivery of credit cards to bank customers. Turkey's largest credit card delivery company is Kuryenet, whose owner and founder Haluk Berdan says he entered the market after predicting in 1994 that there was a need for such a service. After 11 years of rapid growth, Kuryenet now delivers nearly 20 million credit cards a year to Turkish customers, and enjoys the status of being the most dependable name of its kind in the market. |
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Vorkink: Turkey should focus on creating more employment
World Bank Director Andrew Vorkink said over the weekend that Turkey should focus on creating more employment opportunities to sustain its rapid growth and safeguard its recent economic reforms. "While Turkey needs to remain committed to a broad-based macro-economic and structural reform program, the need has come now to focus on the challenges ahead, the greatest of which is job creation," said the World Bank director. |
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State Minister Aydin to be chief EU coordinator
Turkish Prime Minister is reportedly going to appoint State Minister Mehmet Aydin as the chief coordinator for Turkey's European Union membership negotiations that are set to begin on October 3. Erdogan will give his final decision following the the May 29 French referendum on the EU Constitution. Erdogan is planning to be the chief negotiator himself and is expected to name Aydin to act as a coordinator that will assist the premier with the EU negotiations. |
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Swiss government enters fray on investigation into Turkish professor
The legal investigation into a speech by President of the Turkish History Foundation, Professor Yusuf Halacoglu, by Swiss prosecutor Andrej Gnehm, has been turned over to diplomatic channels for solution. Following a speech given by Professor Halacoglu in the Swiss city of Winterthur during May 2004 in which Halacoglu denied the Armenian genocide, Swiss prosecutor Gnehm decided to start an investigation into the professor, calling for him to appear in Switzerland to testify, and even moving to have an international warrant for his arrest published. |
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Kenya Airways to fly twice-weekly to Istanbul
Kenya Airways (KA), Kenya's national airline will start twice-weekly flights to Istanbul via Cairo as of June 10, said a spokesman from the airline. The new planned routes are part of a KA strategy to increase it's market share and also give the airline access to the Caspian Sea region as well as the potentially lucrative and well developed domestic air transport in Turkey. |
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Warning from Talat to Greek side: the barricades could close again
President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Mehmet Ali Talat, has warned that the free circulation of Greek goods from over the border from the south is threatened by anti-Turkish politics on the Greek side. In an interview with the Greek newspaper Politis, Talat said "We don't have any intention of closing the barricades. But developments on the subject of real estate might drag things in that direction. If accusations against Turkish Cypriots continue or increase, the Cypriot Turks will stop coming to the south for fear of being arrested. And the result of this will be the closing of the barricades." |
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Protest in support of "headscarf" wearers features handcuffs
An estimated 20,000 people met in Ankara's Sihhiye Square yesterday for a demonstration sponsored by the "Freedom of Belief Platform." The theme of the meeting was "Respect for Religious Belief, Freedom for the Headscarf." The leader of the National Youth Organization, Ilyas Tongus, spoke at the meeting, saying that the subject of the headscarf was not something that "could be swept under the carpet," calling for a swift and immediate solution to the matter. |
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Erdogan-Aliyev, Aliyev-Kocharian talks
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Warsaw for a summit of European Council leaders, met yesterday with Azerbajian President Ilham Aliyev. Referring to the tension surrounding the Nagorno Karabagh region, Erdogan said "We are watching carefully that steps be taken to overcome problems in this region." |
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